DevOps is the blending of tasks performed by a company's application development and systems operations teams. The term DevOps is being used in several ways. In its most broad meaning, DevOps is an operational philosophy that promotes better communication between development and operations as more elements of operations become programmable. In its most narrow interpretation, DevOps describes the part of an organization’s information technology (IT) team that creates and maintains infrastructure. The term may also be used to describe a team of software engineers who strategically look at the entire software delivery chain, overseeing shared services and championing the use of new development tools and best practices.
The DevOps approach seeks to meld application development and deployment into a more streamlined process, shifting some of the operation team’s responsibilities back to the development team in order to facilitate continuous development, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous monitoring processes. The necessity for tearing down the silos between development and operations has been expedited by the need to release code faster and more often in order to help the organization respond in a more agile manner to changing business requirements. Other drivers for breaking down the silos include the increasing use of cloud computing and advances in software-defined infrastructures, microservices, containers and automation.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is here and is becoming an increasing topic of interest among technology giants and business communities. The hype is not baseless as there are enough evidences to support the success of “Internet of Things” in the coming years. According to a report by Gartner there will be 30% increase in the number of connected devices in 2016 as compared to 2015 with 6.4 billion IoT devices entering the realm of internet of things. The number is further expected to increase to 26 billion by 2020. “BY 2020 IT IS EXPECTED THAT 26 BILLION DEVICES WILL BE PART OF INTERNET OF THINGS.”
Internet of things examples extend from smart connected homes to wearable to healthcare. It is not wrong to suggest that IoT is now becoming part of every aspect of our lives. Not only internet of things applications are enhancing the comforts of our lives but also it giving us more control by simplifying routine work life and personal tasks. "Healthcare is one sector which is supposed to be highly boosted with advent of internet of things applications.” And that’s where SmartCloud is building a robust Healthcare IoT Framework code named MANGALYAAN (named after India’s cost effective and innovative mission to Mars) to help build innovative products in IoT for healthcare and pharma.